“The President knows so little about infectious disease that, on Wednesday, during a news conference, he acknowledged that he was shocked to learn that influenza kills between roughly thirty to seventy thousand people a year in the United States.
Trump said this in public, standing next to Anthony Fauci, who, for decades, as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been the government’s most prominent and reliable authority on subjects ranging from aids to sars, Ebola, and influenza.”
Fauci is a discreet man, but the look on his face could not hide his shock at hearing the President, a self-described germaphobe, brag that he knows nothing about the diseases that constantly threaten the people he was elected to lead.
Always a calm but honest spokesman, Fauci was booked to appear this Sunday on all the major television news shows. (On Friday, Pence’s office told him to withdraw from each of them.)” THERE IT IS, FOLKS! OUT FOR #1, AS ALWAYS.
